by IndieSnob on Mon Nov 11, 2002 10:38 pm
There is two flaws in what you think with your blade dvd.
#1: I won't get into the whole bits, bytes, etc. formula tables because I'm no expert in that arena, but I do know 4.6 gb is not what a blank dvd will actually hold.
#2: Just because the main movie is smaller, and you don't want the menu system, chapter listing etc. etc. does not mean you can just take those vobs and copy them to a dvd and expect it to play, even if it's under the the data size limit of your blank. There is actual ifo files embedded that tell the dvd what exactly is on it and how it should play it. You would have to use IFOEdit to edit all of that, and beleive me, you'd probably break about 4 keyboards in the process. The only way to do that is to read some guided on simple IFOedit stuff and you would have to split the dvd in 2, i.e. most of the movie on the first disc, and the rest of the movie and all extras on the second disc, but it doesn't always come out correctly.
Sorry to sound negative, but no one should go in thinking it's easy to copy every dvd out there.
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